Light/Fan Face Plate Tutorial

First Craft the blog: As most/many of you know there is NOTHING MORE I LOVE (decor wise) is Sunflowers and Americana - they go SOO amazing with eachother. I couldnt stand to look at the solid white faceplates (too boring) so i decided to make some of my own. I'll show you here how to make for the Americana Faceplates - not sure yet what im going to do for the sunflowers.

What you'll need:

~ Faceplate (I bought beige)
~ Paint (i used Navy blue, Cardinal red, & French Vanilla)
~ Star templete (unless you're going to draw it by hand)
~ Good Ol' Mod Podge
~ Sandpaper


Step One: I decide to sandpaper to make it rough, or else the paint would just slide on the shiney surface of the plate. DONT LOSE THE SCREWS ... lol

Step Two: I used the Navy Blue and painted the top and bottom .. I painted it twice.



Step Three: Paint the Red Strips - use your best judgement on what you think is best to split the lines up. It's up to you whether or not you want thicker or smaller lines.



Step Four:
Paint the White Stripes .. again its up to you how thick you want your lines. I repainted the red and white lines 2-3 times.



Step Five: I used a templete (because im CDO, that if i were to draw them by hand that it'd take me FOREVER)



Step Six: Then I just traced the star with my paint brush and filled it in with the white paint .. I painted them 2-3 times to make sure it stood out. its up to your preference what you'd like.



Step Seven: I added Mod Podge ( the Matte kind ) and let it dry then I changed out the face plates and Wa-Laa ! there you go !! I've also seen theis being done with staining it to make it more primitive looking ... I was too excied to finish them and get them up I decided not to. I also did a plate for a single one - i apologize i didnt get a before/after but its along the same line.




Before I decided to take pictures of the plates, I had already done the Single plates and here is the Before/After - just follow along the same tutorial as the ones above.




DISCLAIMER: This is my first craft blog post .. so please bare with me as I get better posting my crafts - I'm sure it'll get better and more neat.